Health care disparities and the LGBT population
By: edited by Vickie L. Harvey and Teresa Heinz Housel
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781498536059; 9780739187029
Subjects: Gays; Transgender people; Medical care; Bisexuals; Health services accessibility; Discrimination in medical care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Constructing identity by coming out to your physician. An introduction to the loosely knit patchwork of LGBT health care  -- Teresa Heinz Housel and Vickie L. Harvey; title: The importance of sexual orientation disclosure to physicians for women who have sex with women  -- Karina Willes and Mike Allen; title: Coming out conversations and gay/bisexual men's sexual health: a constitutive model study  -- Jimmie Manning; title: Shaping self with the doctor: the construction of identity for trans patients  -- Katy Ross, Juliann C. Scholl, and Gina Castle Bell -- pt. 2.; title: Access, disparities, and harassment under the guise of policies. Health insurance coverage for same-sex couples: disparities and trends under DOMA  -- Gilbert Gonzales, Ryan Moltz, and Miriam King; title: Carving triangles into squares: the effects of LGBTQ-stigma-related stressors during youth, adulthood, and aging  -- Dawn L. Strongin, Marc J. Silva, and Fredrick Smiley; title: Reproductive physicians' treatment of lesbian patients in Germany and the United States  -- Alicia VandeVusse -- pt. 3.; title: Silencing, violence, and other forms of intimidation of LGBT people. Limiting transgender health: administrative violence and microaggressions in health care systems  -- Sonny Nordmarken and Reese Kelly; title: Women's health, health care service utilization, and experience of intimate partner violence in the United States  -- Bethany M. Coston; title: Political activism as a health-giving activity: transforming silence into language and action -- Michael Warren Tumolo.